Running like a red thread through Marcel Alcalá’s paintings and ceramics is a quiet foreboding, winding along the ocean floor of the subconscious.
Brandon Sward
Brandon Sward is a writer who lives and works in Chicago and Los Angeles.
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A Striking Installation Reveals How Ableist Design Can Be
In Emily Barker’s exhibition, scaled-up cabinets tower above the viewer and a rug, six inches thick, poses an insurmountable barrier for a wheelchair.
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An Artist’s Critique of Colonialism in Brazil
Centered on Brazil’s northeastern region, Jonathas de Andrade’s One to One dramatizes exchanges between the colonizer and colonized, between the haves and have-nots.
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LA’s Queer Chicano Artist Networks, from the 1960s to the ’90s
Axis Mundo at the MOCA Pacific Design Center explores how queer Chicano/a artists created a world in Los Angeles from the late 1960s to the early ’90s that has been largely unknown.
